South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]Major Margaret Stafford reports on a recent outreach by a team from the Salvation Army PE Central Community Church.[/notice] Its 8 o’clock and a group of folk are preparing to go out onto the streets of downtown Port Elizabeth to meet and speak to a few ladies of the night. […]
A 20-member outreach team from Bethel Church in Redding California will be conducting workshops, leading services and reaching out during an 11-day visit to Port Elizabeth from next weekend. “We are passionate about seeing Heaven come to Earth and are particularly passionate about Port Elizabeth,” says Bethel Revival Group Pastor, […]
It is spreading around SA as God said it would! They call themselves the Bag Angels. They are busy Joburg working women. And on Saturdays they love to take handbags filled with Bibles and “essential” goodies to women in shelters. In just six months since starting the Bags of Hope […]
A Port Elizabeth farmer’s encounter with God during a sleepless night in hospital led him to undertake a 5 000 km road trip to serve poor people in northern Namibia. His wife Louise, who also went on the trip said the many divine appointments on their trek were testimony to […]
Originally published in Christian Today The Vatican has announced plans to install showers specifically to be used by homeless people in St Peter’s Square. In the shadow of St Peter’s Basilica there will be a space to wash, with clean towels and underwear also available. It will be manned by […]
Rachelle is five years old and did not speak when she first came to the soup kitchen at Faith Hope Love Ministries in Greenbushes, Port Elizabeth. She ignored the other kids and only spoke to her mother and showed with her hands what she wanted. Rachelle now has verbal diarrhoea… […]
A housing protest in front of the Port Elizabeth City Hall took a surprising turn yesterday morning (Wednesday, October 29) when an evangelist, Brendon Slabbert, got permission to address the crowd. Slabbert who is a city businessman and student at the Word of Faith Bible Institute says he was busy […]
Originally published in CBN News In Liberia, churches are helping fight the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Volunteers, trained and equipped by CBN’s Operation Blessing, are distributing sanitation equipment and delivering much-needed food and supplies to quarantined victims who are cut off from society. Liberian Pastor Allison Dole is determined […]
Call for Church to speak out about ‘unrighteous deeds’ that hinder development Although the 10 000 kilometre 4×4 Africa Peace and Development Expedition from Cape Town to Kisangani during August and September 2014 by faith-based social entrepreneur Johan Meintjes, by his own admission, did not achieve all he set out […]
By Graham Ries, organiser of Matthew Lunch By divine design, and divine design only, order will come out of chaos. The Lord has blessed this year’s Matthew Lunch outrageously. Food, clothing and money worth nearly R45 000 has poured in from all over with cash donations ranging from R10 to […]